Logic, Inductive and Deductive

The text combines a historical account of logical forms with a practical guide to preventing error, beginning with the origin and aims of logic and its axioms and moving through terms, predication, definition, and the analysis of propositions. It treats syllogistic structures, figures, moods, immediate inferences, enthymemes, and common deductive fallacies, then shifts to inductive reasoning and the logic of scientific inquiry: observation, methods for testing testimony and causal claims, and experimental procedures including agreement, difference, elimination, and methods associated with Mill. Emphasis is placed on organizing reasoning to detect, avoid, and correct fallacious thinking.